Whilst driving home from dropping the children off I had a thought that is reoccuring to me lately, does life reflect the games we play? Or do the games we play reflect life?
Now go with me on this one, or should I say stay with me on this one, just a little while.
As I've shared lately I've been engrossed in the game of "Bejeweled" a silly game with colored jewels in a grid. You have to move certain gems to get 3 in a row, 4 in a row or better still 5 in a row. When you line up your gems they smash and disappear giving you points. When you get 4 in a row you get a power gem which blows up a few extra gems. When you get 5 in a row you get a Hyper gem which well gives you the power to blow up all of one color on the screen. That is the gist of the game, really it's a non violent way of blowing up things! Sure you might prefer a game of "Doom" or another violent sort of game where blood gushes, but this is not that.
Anyway sometimes as you move the gems to match 3 in a row you realise that if you'd made a different move you could've got 4 in a row, increasing your score, changing the sequence of the grid.
Sometimes I think that is what happens in life - we make a choice and too late we realise that we missed a bigger opportunity or a better path. But that option has gone forever - you missed out on something great.
Sometimes you choose to move the blue gem only to find that the yellow gem would've been the better move.
Sometimes we take a path that we know isn't the best one, but we hope we can recoup the error we made... only to find out that the opportunity you had in front of you was a once off.
The only way to do better is to start again.
Start again with a new game, a new path, a new approach.
I don't know, maybe I think too much, maybe I'm a little crazy, but life goes for more than 1 minute segments. So I guess I need to slow down and smell the roses a lot more. I need to slow down and look around. I'm now thinking I'm wrong, in that life isn't totally like a game, in life we get many chances to change our path, sometimes we need to start again, sometimes we need to keep trying to re-find that opportunity. I've played a lot of bejeweled games over the past few weeks and well I've finally grown sick of it. But life is here to live I'm not sick of it. I'll still look for the hyper gem occassionally, but in the mean time I'm soaking up the 3's and 4's.
But if life was a game I'd like to be stuck in Animal Crossing ... minus the hidden bee-hives in the trees.
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